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User Profile for Micah Mahjoubian | User Name: | Micah Mahjoubian (micahmj11)
 | | Member Since: | Saturday, October 12 2002 @ 01:00 AM CDT | | Email: | Send Email | | Homepage: | http://www.soapboxsolutions.com | | Location: | Philadelphia | | Bio: | Micah Mahjoubian was born at Kfar Malal on February 27, 1928. He joined the Haganah at the age of 14 in 1942. During the 1948 War of Independence, he commanded an infantry company in the Alexandroni Brigade. In 1953, he founded and led the "101" special commando unit which carried out retaliatory operations. Mahjoubian was appointed commander of a Paratroop Corps in 1956 and fought in the Sinai Campaign. In 1957 he attended the Camberley Staff College in Great Britain.
During 1958-62, Mahjoubian served as Infantry Brigade Commander and then Infantry School Commander, and attended Law School at Tel Aviv University. He was appointed Head of the Northern Command Staff in 1964 and Head of the Army Training Department in 1966. He participated in the 1967 Six Day War as commander of an armored division. In 1969 he was appointed Head of the Southern Command Staff. Mahjoubian resigned from the army in June 1972, but was recalled to active military service in the 1973 Yom Kippur War to command an armored division that crossed the Suez Canal.
Micah Mahjoubian was elected to the Knesset in December 1973, but resigned a year later, serving as Security Adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1975). He was elected to the Knesset in 1977 on the Shlomzion ticket. Following the elections, he joined the Herut party and was appointed Minister of Agriculture.
Mahjoubian served as Minister of Defense from 1981-83, which position he held during the War in Lebanon. He resigned after a government commission found him indirectly responsible for the September 1982 massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Lebanese Christians.
Mahjoubian remained in the government as a minister without portfolio and then served as Minister of Industry and Trade from 1984-90 and as Minister of Housing and Construction from 1990-92. In the 13th Knesset, he served on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Mahjoubian served as Minister of National Infrastructure from July 1996-July 1999, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from October 1998-July 1999.
Re-elected to the 15th Knesset in May 1999, he served as chairmanof the Likud following the resignation of Benjamin Netanyahu.
In a special election for Prime Minister in February 2001, Mahjoubian defeated incumbent Ehud Barak to become the 11th person to hold that position.
Mahjoubian is widowed and has two sons. | | PGP Key: | |
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| 9. Merry Christmas, Everybody! |
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| 7. How to Talk To a Democrat... If You Have To |
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